You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.

If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.

I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn't long before I set up a lemonade stand.

Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.